Inktober 2022 Day 29: Facade

Another, different one from Andrea this morning.

 

My home was built in Georgian times

For the Georgian upper class

With servants and a butler

And finest crystal glass

 

Many families have lived here

In the past two hundred years

They’ve all had dreams and hopes and plans

And some have suffered fears

 

It’s seen three Georges, Edwards two

King William and Queen Vic

Most recently Elizabeth

Of all she was my pick

 

Doctors, lawyers, bankers too

Have all lived on our street

Some, they lived here many years

And some their tenures fleet

 

Times they changed and people too

As fashions came and went

So many people’s stories here

And all the lives they’ve spent

 

Me? I’ve lived here twenty years

And still change hastens on

‘Twill come a time when I move out

My story will be done

 

In time all things are fleeting

And fortunes sometimes hard

But there’s one thing that’s been constant

And that’s the street’s façade…

 

(Even if there is graffiti on the end wall…..)

 

Done